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Date: September 20th, 2024 7:38 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle hall stain
Yeah I know you guys don't care about adult book reports, but who gives a fuck.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5598785&forum_id=2#48114700)
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Date: September 21st, 2024 7:38 AM Author: Razzle-dazzle hall stain Subject: Sooo CR Summer Capsule Reviews
* Sweet 16 (1983): Wanted to see this obscure slasher for a while. Beginning and ending are slasher excellence; the rest of the movie is more of a TV film but it's still entertaining.
* Death Metal Zombies: Enjoyably stupid SOV film from the 90s SOV wave. This one actually kind of works as a legitimate horror movie, has a good death metal soundtrack, and is very, very endearing.
* Torture Dungeon: My first real foray into the twisted world of Andy Milligan. A lot of fun and the heroine is hot and can't keep her clothes on.
* All About Evil: Weirdo queer/camp horror movie with Natasha Lyonne that's an homage to the low budget gore comedies of 1960s and 1970s of HG Lewis, Andy Milligan, and John Waters.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5598785&forum_id=2#48116280) |
Date: September 25th, 2024 10:12 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle hall stain
Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1973)
Exceptionally weird vampire (sorta) movie that's part of the 1970s/early 80s American regional independent horror boom. Part Night of the Hunter, part Suspiria. Weird story about an innocent, beautiful young girl who is a devout Christian who gets summoned to a strange town to see her fugitive mobster father, and gets involved with werewolves (who act more like zombies) and vampires.
This is a weird one, folks, and not one I can wholly recommend--it's much too accomplished and effective to be relegated to MST3K style trash, but it manages to be ponderous and confusing despite a quick run time, so I can't really recommend it to anyone looking for a pleasant genre experience, even an offbeat one. That said, I'm glad I watched it, and I'll watch it again, I'm sure, but...it's strange. And God bless it.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5598785&forum_id=2#48132572) |
Date: September 28th, 2024 9:14 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle hall stain Subject: Quatermass II (1957)
I really enjoy Nigel Kneale's work and its distinctive blend of supernatural horror and rational science fiction; Quatermass and the Pit is one of the most 'me' movies of all time.
This isn't quite as good as that, but it's still extremely good and creepy, if a little bit slow at first. It plays out like an X-Files mytharc episode, with a tireless truthseeker running up against a malevolent extraterrestrial conspiracy that seems to have the support of the government.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5598785&forum_id=2#48141629) |
Date: September 29th, 2024 3:39 AM Author: Bat-shit-crazy saffron depressive
have you seen Apartment 7A yet?
not a huge fan of the story.
thought the Minnie and Roman imitations were fantastic... except the behavior of Minnie was slightly off, and not in a good way.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5598785&forum_id=2#48142335)
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Date: September 29th, 2024 9:35 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle hall stain Subject: Dagon
The first ten minutes or so are pretty bad early 2000s low budget horror (the acting is pretty rough, especially from the lead), but nothing involving Stuart Gordon + HP Lovecraft is ever wholly worthless, and there's a lot to like here. Great production design, with a sense of unrelenting, damp bleakness that matches the storyline. The CGI effects are mostly wretched (this is a low budget horror picture from 2001, so what do you expect) but the practical effects are great. Lots of gore and nudity, too.
Also, if you've ever wished they made a movie out of Resident Evil 4, this is basically that, but with fishmen instead of zombies.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5598785&forum_id=2#48144605) |
Date: October 3rd, 2024 4:57 PM Author: aromatic mauve mood water buffalo Subject: Quick Funny
Quick funny. I'm a grandfather now and have two daughters. When one was in college, I was visiting her in college to drop off some stuff and helping out with a Halloween party and I met her roommate.
She was wearing stockings, and when I realized that she was, I didn't look at her. At all. My daughter saw that I was uncomfortable but quickly figured out why. She then did everything in her power to make me more uncomfortable. Truly rotten of her.
When I gave her a silent message/communicating that I hated her and I knew what she was doing... blah, blah, blah. At the end, when she hugged me, she whispered in my ear that she was getting even for some of the rotten things I did to embarrass her when she discovered boys.
That genuinely made me a proud dad that she was that evil. She is a rotten kid, and I love her for it.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5598785&forum_id=2#48160320) |
Date: October 4th, 2024 6:43 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle hall stain Subject: Deranged
Mid 70s movie that's a pretty straightforward retelling of the Ed Gein story. It's straight up exploitation but has an element of, if not class, competence to it. It helps that, compared to the facts of the Gein case, anything else comes across as *less* sensational.
Ezra Cobb, the Ed Gein stand-in, is played by cult actor Roberts Blossom--probably best known to us as the old man in Home Alone(!).
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5598785&forum_id=2#48164423)
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Date: October 6th, 2024 1:59 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle hall stain Subject: Baron Blood
Lesser Mario Bava movie that caps off a lot of the European Gothic horror he and others churned out during the 1960s (with increasingly gruesome results). College kid goes to his ancestral home in Austria and accidentally on purpose revives the spirit of his sadistic ancestor. It's more of a Saturday afternoon timekiller than anything substantial, but it looks great (the cinematography is always good in Bava), the cast is fun, and it's a stylish but low-key mix of Gothic and giallo. Grisly in a fun horror-comic kind of way, but not actually very sleazy.
Not a waste of time, but nothing here that Bava didn't do better either in the realm of the Gothic (Black Sunday) or the giallo (Bay of Blood).
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5598785&forum_id=2#48169261) |
Date: October 13th, 2024 7:23 AM Author: Milton's Pathetic Aftermath (No Future) Subject: Lake Mungo
Rewatched this last night; a hard film to describe and one I’m wary about recommending because while I think it’s a masterpiece people might justly call it boring
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5598785&forum_id=2#48192252)
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Date: October 13th, 2024 5:18 PM Author: Milton's Pathetic Aftermath (No Future) Subject: Underwater
Watched this afternoon; fun unsubstantial little movie. Feels like something from the 1990s or late 80s (which had SO MANY of those 'Alien, but underwater' movies) but with better production design. Wouldn't have minded a little more gore but the PG-13 rating doesn't really feel like it hobbles the film. KStew is great and I am in love with her.
Absolutely skippable/inessential but well-executed and proves that just because something is a 'turn off your brain and eat popcorn' movie doesn't mean it has to be stupid or shoddy.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5598785&forum_id=2#48193698) |
Date: October 15th, 2024 8:15 AM Author: Milton's Pathetic Aftermath (No Future) Subject: Longlegs
Very interesting movie; completely fearless in its risk-taking. Cage's Tiny Tim/glam rock psycho is totally nuts and I love it. More nightmarish than anything else, which is fine. It's actually a rather challenging movie--dense/textual/layered--and has some interesting shifts from abstract, detached art-horror to high-end midcult normie horror (Se7en/Thomas Harris) to a very James Wan combination of bottom of the barrel post-millennium DTV idiocy and florid Italianate stylishness. I think it's those shifts that I wasn't prepared for.
*SPOILERS*
I wasn't expecting them to lean into the supernatural quite as explicitly as they did in the way that they did--which is interesting.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5598785&forum_id=2#48199296) |
Date: October 16th, 2024 7:06 AM Author: Milton's Pathetic Aftermath (No Future) Subject: The Vast of Night
Not really a horror movie but certainly spooky. Not that great, though--definitely feels like Jeff Bezos burst into a meeting room and shouted 'WHY DON'T WE HAVE A STRANGER THINGS!'
The first third is pretty appealing as a low key high school slice of life/incipient romance, and once the UFO stuff kicks in, it's very well edited. The ending, though, falls a little bit flat.
Certainly quite watchable, though.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5598785&forum_id=2#48203067) |
Date: October 16th, 2024 7:17 AM Author: Milton's Pathetic Aftermath (No Future) Subject: Masters of Horror: "Imprint"
This is a notorious one--producer (and himself splatterpunk proponent) Mick Garris told Takashi Miike that he could do whatever he wanted for his contribution to the Showtime anthology series. Doubtless he was trying to capture a little bit of the hardcore edge that was making Miike known to discerning Western sickos with stuff like Audition and Ichii the Killer.
As it turns out, what Takashi Miike hears when you tell him "do whatever you want" is not the same as what you or I, or even splat-happy filmmakers like Clive Barker or Stuart Gordon, hear when you tell them that. Showtime's censors thought the episode was way too strong even for premium cable. As a horror fan, you spend a lot of time bitching about the censors, but I gotta side with them here.
Not that I didn't enjoy "Imprint." It's good, very well made (except for the acting--if you've ever wanted to see Billy Drago channel 2024 Joe Biden, this is your chance), and the first time in a while that I've encountered hardcore horror content that made me wince and squirm. It also has a folklorish feel to it that somewhat justifies the whole thing's existence--you can easily slot this into a tradition of Japanese supernatural fiction and storytelling. In that sense, it's not very far off from an updated version of something like Jigoku.
It is all a bit much, though, and Miike's maximalist approach means that you see way more than necessary to get the point. It's hard for me to get worked up about any of this--as they say, "It's only a movie, only a movie, only a movie--" but I wouldn't fault anyone for deciding this isn't how they want to spend an hour of their life.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5598785&forum_id=2#48203076) |
Date: October 16th, 2024 7:21 AM Author: Milton's Pathetic Aftermath (No Future) Subject: Rob Zombie's Halloween
I'm a Rob Zombie apologist, and I think the story being told in the beginning third of the movie is a good one. Exploring childish psychopathy in the context of kitchen sink grime heightened to extremes of bad taste worked well in Alice Sweet Alice, and it should have worked here. And it does!
But, the second this turns into a Halloween movie, it falls flat. It reminds me of the time I bought a big bottle of St. Bernardus ale and discovered it was flat. There's still the tantalizing taste, and there's still the ABV, so it's not a total loss, but it's so frustratingly unsatisfying.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5598785&forum_id=2#48203084)
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Date: October 16th, 2024 9:00 AM Author: Milton's Pathetic Aftermath (No Future) Subject: Torture Dungeon
Andy Milligan was sort of the Benzo of filmmakers. He was a drug-addled, violent homosexual criminal who hated everything and everyone, and made dozens of low budget movies, mostly in and around NYC, that involve lots of sadism, nastiness, black humor, and unappealing sex. They’re interesting curiosities, and better made than you might think, but definitely only for people looking for out of the ordinary experiences.
This one is a sort of ultraviolent Richard III kind of riff, which benefits from having a pretty good looking girl whose top is always falling off or about to. And the main bad guy has a zero budget Vincent Price thing going on.
Not exactly recommended, but if it sounds like something you’d like, you’re probably right. If it sounds too off for you—you’re definitely right.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5598785&forum_id=2#48203254) |
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